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George Galloway is back in Parliament with a resounding win in the Rochdale by-election after a campaign in which the Gaza war was a running theme.
""Keir Starmer - this is for Gaza," the former Labour MP said, after polling 12,335 votes, nearly 6,000 more than any other candidate.
Mr Galloway will take his Commons seat for the Workers Party of Britain.
Labour had withdrawn support for candidate Azhar Ali over remarks widely alleged to be antisemitic.
Mr Ali apologised for his remarks.
Mr Galloway has previously been an MP for Labour until 2003, then in the Commons as an independent and Respect Party MP for three constituencies between 2003 and 2015."Comment
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Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
Free dinners, gold wallpaper, Trips to the Southern Spain, and Brown enevlopes full of cash,
Oops that was The PM not these offtwat guys.Comment
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I'm sure the Rochdale election will result in a kneejerk louder reaction from Labour just like they've done before but far too much emphasis is being placed on Gaza being the cause. Rochdale's byelection was undertaken under very specific and unique circumstances that are incredibly unlikely to be repeated elsewhere. Even if Galloway was right, I'd be wary of an election voted on a single issue basis again after 2019's ****show outcome, let alone on one where the MP is heavily focused on something that has absolutely zero bearing on the area or country he's been voted in for. Feels like his past record as a recognisable MP and good timing has won the day for him here.Comment
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Labour responds saying that they apologise to Rochdale for the byelection result and that Galloways victory is solely due to the absence of a Labour option
Instantly Galloways party is in hot water as the Deputy Leader fails to condemn Hamas' actions on 07 October
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He's such a grifter.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
Instantly Galloways party is in hot water as the Deputy Leader fails to condemn Hamas' actions on 07 October
This was his seventh parliamentary victory in four cities for three parties across four decades.
Four years after the Gulf War, sparked by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, when Mr Galloway met Saddam Hussein in 1994.
He was recorded telling the dictator: “Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability”.
He boasted about what a prolific lover he was just before he first got voted:
“I travelled and spent lots of time with people in Greece, many of whom were women, some of whom were known carnally to me. I actually had sexual intercourse with some of the people in Greece.”
He was fired from TalkRadio in 2019 for his comments on a link between Tottenham Hotspur and Israel triggered outrage with criticism led by the football club, after he said Liverpool’s victory over Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League final meant there would be “no Israel flags on the cup”.
Hi party are "anti-woke" – “for the workers not the wokers”, as Mr Galloway has put it.
The Workers’ Party are against anti-self ID for transgender people, openly stated in his letter to constituents in Rochdale.
He's lobbied the white voters, saying he'll go after grooming gangs, but also campaigned outside mosques, standing on a pile of wooden pallets, Galloway laid his message on thick: “How are you going to answer your children, your grandchildren, on judgment day when you are asked: ‘What did you do when Keir Starmer asked you to endorse what he has done?’”
Migration: “Workers’ Party of Britain (WPB) offers a migration policy that reflects the anxiety felt among the working class about an influx of migrants which appears to be out of control”. It adds, “People are not wrong to worry about undue burdens being placed on local services and about the cost of hosting escalating numbers of asylum seekers.”
Climate: The WPB is against “apocalyptic Green hysteria that floods our media”, will “keep an open mind” about the reality of climate change and says there is “no need to be rushed” into a green economy. It denounces “increasingly unhinged identity politics”
He's refused to denounce Putin's invasion, even echoing his words, calling it a “Special Military Operation”.
“Our party had no choice” but to support Putin’s war.
I really hope he gets booted at the next election, not because of the above points, but because at 69, he deserves to have a rest and look after his 6 kids, the youngest of whom is 3.Comment
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Sounds like Rochdale just voted in a ToryComment
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I can guarantee the only two jobs safe from AI replacement are the CEOs and politicians that implement them.Comment
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The current Tory government is especially excited by this as there are no laws stopping you from bullying, sexual harassing, or beating up an AI.Comment
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Even when a Tory tries to hand out money for nothing they can't help but discriminateComment
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If your in IT doing anything like coding, design, data processing, your stuffed long term and will need to adapt to another industry.Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
If you’re in manufacturing or a trade, it won’t affect you really, apart from how some tools get designed. But a robot isn’t going to be crawling under a house and replacing an awkward burst pipe, or putting a factory together that manufactures goods, because it can’t possibly learn from a human doing these sorts of things, not for a very very long time.
That’s because it’s not really A.i, it’s just a parrot copying stuff that’s already in data form on the net, that’s fed too it. It can’t learn and grow like we can and adapt second by second to weird situations it’s put in on the fly, maybe one day it will evolve too, but true sentience is a very very very long way off.Last edited by fishbowlhead; 04-03-2024, 13:04.Comment
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It doesn't need sentience to be able to adapt and, in all honesty, I think very little can possibly happen to a tradesperson that hasn't happened before somewhere. There will always be prior knowledge. If anything, AI being able to hold and access those almost one-off situations better than a human would be an advantage.Originally posted by fishbowlhead View Post
But I agree with your point about not affecting trades not because of limits of AI but because of limits and costs of mechanics. Even with the stuff in the robots thread, the advancements in actual physical motor skills have been at a snail's pace in my lifetime. They're not even close to human level and the best of them cost an absolute fortune. Anything that involves physical work is safe for a long, long time.Comment
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The only jobs in the future, tradesperson and CEO. Either you're ****ting in the gold toilet or you're unblocking it. Welcome to the future.Comment
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